The Guardian Of The Four Dragon(GL)
In a kingdom where the legendary Four Dragons of elemental harmony have been secretly imprisoned by a greedy Emperor, a young woman’s life is shattered by the very war his tyranny fuels. Yu Hui, a village girl with the blue eyes of the sea, loses her beloved brother to the conflict. Disguising herself as a man, she takes his name and place in the imperial army, armed only with grief, a mysterious silver pendant, and her mother’s old tales of the dragons’ lost peace.
Recruited into the palace guard, Yu Hui’s quiet intelligence catches the eye of Princess Zhang Haiying, an obedient princess trapped in her own gilded cage, betrothed to a foreign prince to secure a false peace. Haiying sees through Yu Hui’s disguise and recognizes a kindred spirit—someone who hates the empire’s corruption as much as she does.
The two form a dangerous, secret alliance: the princess with a scholar’s mind and a queen’s resolve, and the guard with a peasant’s strength and a legacy she doesn’t yet understand. Together, they unearth the Emperor’s original sin—the brutal, ongoing theft of the dragons’ essence to power his endless war. As their bond deepens from alliance into a fierce, hidden love, they embark on an impossible quest to find and free the dragons before the kingdom is consumed by war and spiritual decay.
Their journey takes them from the frozen prison of the Water Dragon to the corrupted forges of the Fire Dragon, and into the heart of a battlefield to save the Earth Dragon. Yu Hui discovers her pendant is a relic of the Old Pact, and she becomes the living bridge to the dragons, their pain echoing in her soul and their power awakening within her. Through sacrifice, betrayal, and a love that defies every law, Yu Hui and Haiying must free the dragons, heal the land, and face the human armies still hungry for conquest—all while forging a new kind of rule, built not on greed, but on balance, truth, and a hard-won peace.
The Guardian and the Crowned Grace is a sweeping romantic fantasy about grief turned to purpose, love as an act of rebellion, and two women who rewrite the fate of a world by remembering its oldest, quietest magic.